This blog provides stories that Denyse O'Leary, a Toronto-based journalist, has found to be of interest, as she covers the growing intelligent design controversy. It supports her book By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg 2004). Does the universe - and do life forms - show evidence of intelligent design? If so, Carl Sagan was wrong and so is Richard Dawkins. Now what?

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Friday, September 07, 2007

Spying on a Darwin fan's nightstand

Hey, I am not doing the spying. Sean Carroll

an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he also teaches courses in genetics and evolutionary biology. His most recent book is Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (W. W. Norton, 2005).

... what an impoverished reading list. No philosophy, no religion, no study of the Bible, little fiction and no Dante or Shakespeare (unless you count the Darwinist stuff as fiction). Even if Carroll disagrees with us theists, you'd think that he'd read something other than the materialist trash, at least to know about the 90% of the world that believes in something more than materialism. For goodness sake, we read about materialism, the least he could do is read a little bit of literature that transcends materialism.

Materialism will ultimately fail as an ideology, not only because it's wrong, but because it's stupefyingly dull.

Yes, Dr. Mike, but before it fails, how many good scientists will it bring down? We need more, and ever more, safety nets, it seems.